About

Radka and Kim holding their meat box in lush pasture

About us

Why we want to help you to achieve your potential by bringing you the finest food and how such action can change our world to the better

Hannah Thorogood

Our farmers

Why they are farming and what makes them passionate about sharing their sustainably-raised meat with you

Nature Way Farm

Helping the planet

Imagine a world where each piece of land that grows food for you is slowing down global warming

Nature Way Farm

Restoring countryside

What we are doing that brings back colourful meadows and wildlife for you and your children to enjoy and experience

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Connect with your food

Knowing the farmer and the land your food came from gives you the confidence and peace of mind that you have been craving for

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” - Wendell Berry

The amount of feed and fertilizers per 1 beef animal

As a calf, it is fed 100 kg of feed in a creep feeder:
60 kg barley
14 kg soya
23.5 kg sugar beet

growing steer (for 100 days) ratio:
350 kg barley
30 kg rapeseed

finishing steer (for 80 days)
600 kg barley

TOTAL feed per steer:
1010 kg barley
30 kg rapeseed
14 kg soya
23.5 kg sugar beet

Source: AHDB

Pesticide figure based on yearly application of pesticides on barley in 2018 (based on application to 0.17 ha that would produce 1 tonne of barley):

spring and winter barley were mixed in equal ratio for simplicity.
Pesticides in spring barley:
157.5 g
Pesticides in winter barley:
307.5 g

TOTAL 465 g of pesticides = to litres it is about 465 ml of pesticides per year.

Source: Pesticides usage survey 284 for arable crops in the United Kingdom 2018 (National Statistics)

Fertilizer figure (based on application to 0.17 ha that would produce 1 tonne of barley):
nitrogen: 24.14 kg
phosphate: 4.59 kg
potash: 5.95 kg
sulfur: 5.95 kg


TOTAL 40.63 kg of fertilizers

Source: British survey of fertilizer practice for 2018 (DEFRA)